To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many agency workers have been employed by the Department in each of the last two years; and at what cost to public funds. [115197]

The Department for Transport was created following machinery of government changes on 29 May 2002. From that date to 30 April 2003 the cost of employing agency workers has been £933,229. The information requested in relation to the number of agency workers employed by the Department is not readily available or easily obtained and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.